01 October 2003

Via DeLong, via Volokh...

Shazam! Always nice to see (evidently) intelligent people savaging the current administration in learned ways. This is DeLong responding to Jacob Levy of the Volokh Conspiracy, the latter a collective of conservative/libertarian pundits of the legalistic variety. The former an economist, his blog a treasure trove.

It turns out there is an American intellectual class, and they're actively talking to one another (at least to some degree), and they're doing this - if you can fucking believe it - in something called, I kid you not, 'the blogosphere'. Only in America could we have a name so stupid for a discursive community so semiserious.

Hey, then again, in America we're capable of taking seriously titles like this one, so I shouldn't be that surprised...